Nokia N8 Unlocked GSM Touchscreen Phone Deals

By jb8967 -
This review is from: Nokia N8 Unlocked GSM Touchscreen Phone Featuring GPS with Voice Navigation and 12 MP Camera (Gray) (Wireless Phone Accessory)
This phone has some incredible features at this unlocked, off contract price. This is a 3G pentaband WORLD phone which will work on both AT&T and T-Mobile. It has a 12MP camera with a CCD sensor 3 times bigger than iPhone 4 and even larger than purpose built high quality camera's like the Panasonic LUMIX ZS-3. It has a Xenon flash for excellent night time shots. The N8 shoots HD 720p with HDMI and DOLBY Surround sound output! The camera's optics are specially designed and made by Carl Zeiss, and it has AutoFocus and a mechanical shutter for big camera capabilities in a compact form factor. The phones body is a single piece of Anodized, scratch resistant Aluminum, with Gorilla glass front. It has a new generation AMOLED display with anti-reflective layer. The N8 also sports BLuetooth 3.0, so you can use a wireless bluetooth keyboard and mouse simultaneously. It also has USB on-the-go, so you can directly use mass storage devices like a hard drive or USB flash memory. The phone has the latest Symbian^3 OS, with multi-touch, actual multi-tasking and avoids the double tapping of older Symbian versions. The software also includes on-board and robust photo and video editing. The N8 also uses a faster GPU than the iPhone 4 (SOC GPU), called the Broadcom BMC2727, for a great gaming experience which you can also pipe directly to an HD TV and play on the big screen. It also comes with free turn by turn navigation, available in 74 countries. Of course, its a Nokia so Video Call capability is a given. Battery life is exceptional.

 By Michael Papile -
This review is from: Nokia N8 Unlocked GSM Touchscreen Phone Featuring GPS with Voice Navigation and 12 MP Camera (Gray) (Wireless Phone Accessory)
Hello this review has been updated and lowered in rating. We have 2 N8s and both of them froze and died. This is a problem for many people and I would not recommend this phone until Nokia fixes this issue.

Here are my pros and cons about this phone. I have owned a lot of top smartphones, so I figured I would highlight what I find excels and what lags current crop. Overall it is a very good phone.

Pros:
Camera - The camera is pretty much perfect. You can tell they put a lot of time into it because the software works well and the pictures are great. There simply is no better camera out there on a phone.

Construction - This is a very attractive, and study phone. I have no doubt it will last a long time, it is very nicely engineered

Battery Life - Battery lasts longer than any other smartphone I have used.

Memory- People criticise the lack of ram, but I have not run out of ram ever, and actually having more ram wastes battery.

Radios - Pentaband phone, not very common. This will work everywhere on earth pretty much.

Navigation - Free, no data connection needed and works very well. GPS works better than any other phone I have used. Syncs fast and works even without view of sky.

Sports Tracker - It is awesome!

OMAP processor - Do not listen to MHZ junkies, this processor is very nice because it handles

Connectivity - This phone is the first one I have ever had that switches between Wifi, 3G etc seemlessly and shuts off data when phone not in use. Very well done.

HDMI out/video - works well and default player plays nearly any format you throw at it. even MKV files.

Cons
Web Browser - After using the maemo browser on n900 I realize how good mobile browsing should be. The default browser sucks bad. I know they are coming out with update, but that is no excuse, should ship with good browser

On screen keyboard - It is terrible, Opera mini did it right on N8 why can nokia not do it.

Screen - The resolution is relatively low for modern smart phones. It looks very nice, but when you view pages zoomed out text is garbled due to lack of resolution. I have pretty good vision so I like to read tiny text rather than zoom in.

UI - Symbian is a perfectly fine OS, but the UI is inconsistent. Some areas you hit enter to have setting go, some you have to hit check then ok, some menus go away when you touch shaded part etc. Nothing is consistent.

By vx -
This review is from: Nokia N8 Unlocked GSM Touchscreen Phone Featuring GPS with Voice Navigation and 12 MP Camera (Gray) (Wireless Phone Accessory)
I do actually have this phone (ordered it from NokiaUSA and got it on time since im close by IN).

This phone is for the Symbian lover wanting a new experience, unlike S60 5th edition. And this phone delivers.

Construction and hardware wise, it is perfect (no removable batteries my gripe, but oh well). The camera is fantastic and may even replace your stand alone camera. Feels great in your hands too.

The software..its what S60 5th Edition should have been...the music player, only 1 touch tapping, multitouch are ALL welcome editions. Do not use the ovi maps that come with it, go to beta labs and use OVI maps there...it has multitouch etc. Am thoroughly enjoying it...where they can improve is the web browser and calendar.

Web browser will get an update in Nov from beta labs...will include better multitouch and a brand new look/feel, much like (n900 etc).

All in all, this is what we want, something new but keeping the familiarity.

Good job Nokia..looking forward to your N9